Discounted Monthly Bus Passes only to 50.000 unemployed

Belgrade, Feb. 12, 2010 (Serbia Today) - The National Employment Agency have signed the contract with the Belgrade Public Transportation Company that will secure 50.000 discounted monthly bus passes to unemployed citizens of Belgrade. This in itself would be a good thing if the Belgrade does not have over 90.000 people on the lists of the unemployed.
As it was explained in the National Employment Agency, securing the discounted monthly bus passes is not one of the benefits of the unemployed regulated with any law or rule. It is simply the administrative decision by the Agency to purchase a certain number of discounted bus passes for the unemployed. The contracted quote was 50.000 and nobody never thought of buying passes for the total number of unemployed on the territory of the City of Belgrade. Passes are sold on the first come, first serve basis and that’s the whole of the story.
Nevertheless, unemployed in Belgrade are neither satisfied nor amused with this explanation. They can not accept the fact that each month almost half of them will not have bus passes and not be able to travel on the public transportation system. For many public transportation tickets are already very expensive and take big part of the realy small house budgets of those out of work.